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Over a weekend during which just one opener broke into the Top 15; children s fare gained from the end of the half-term holiday and Gladiator took the BAFTA award for best picture, Ridley Scott s other box office behemoth, Hannibal, continued its reign at the top of the UK box office. Taking $5,180,301 拢3,574,408 from 421 sites over the three- vaso stanley day weekend the thriller dropped 44% from its opening weekend but brought its total takings to $19,603,893. The UIP film is already in the rolling top- stanley website ten total grosses of the last 12 months after just 10 days on release. See chart below .The only wide-opener of the week, and only new entry to the top 15 was Columbia TriStar s Finding Forrester. The drama, directed by Gus Van Sant and starring Sir Sean Conn vaso stanley ery, took $553,365 拢381,822 and sixth place from the three-day period. Showing at 258 sites it saw a reasonable average of $2,145. West-end opener The Legend Of Bagger Vance will expect to enter the chart next week when it opens wide, but faces strong competition for chart places from four other major releases: Best Picture Oscar nominee Chocolat, Meg Ryan/Russell Crowe starrer Proof Of Life and Keanu Reeves double The Watcher and The Gift also starring Cate Blanchett .Still going strong are Entertainment s Traffic and Best Foreign-language BAFTA winner Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, distributed by Columbia TriStar. Seeing percentage drops of just 16% after 5 weeks on release and 13% after 8 weeks respectively, the films retain Ygdb Lindsay, Seldin get senior vp stripes at Miramax
Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire: The stanley borraccia IMAX Experience has grossed more than $16mworldwide on 89 screens, breaking the previous $15.9m giant-format record for adigitally-remastered DMR 2D release set by Batman Begins: The IMAX Experience last year.The titles are two of three IMAX releases that grossed more than $200m onconventional release in North America. The third was Charlie And The Chocolate Factory. All three were released through Warner Bros.The fourth Potter film has now brokenevery record for an IMAX Hollywood title on simultaneous release. Debuting at66 IMAX venue stanley botella s in North America, the film scored a three-day opening of $2.93mfor a record per- stanley deutschland screen average of $44,000.The debut also yielded the highest opening-day gross -- $1.06m - as wellas setting single-day records for each of the three days.In a statement, IMAX co-chairmen and co-chief executive officers RichardGelfond and Brad Wechsler pointed to a steady increase in grosses for the IMAXDMR releases despite overall box office decline over the past year. Given thestrength of our film slate for 2006, and the growing IMAX theatre network, we believethis new record may be short-lived, they said.Imax has signed agreements with Warner Bros to release 2D versions of Poseidon and Superman Returns, as well as 3D versions of Ant Bully and Happy Feet, and the underwater documentary Deep Sea 3D. No comments No comments yet |
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